*Tell Us What You Think* Please spare less than 10 minutes to help us gauge how we can be of most benefit to the farming community & the wider agroecology community.

Completing the survey gives you the opportunity to win a case of Stroud Brewery beer! forms.office.com/e/LqzL2ZejAG

#FarmWildlife_spotlight_species 33: Turtle Dove. The Turtle Dove is the UK’s fastest declining bird. We have lost 39/40 Turtle Doves since 1995 with just about 2,000 pairs left🧵Operation Turtle Dove

Are you coming to our next #FarmOfTheFuture event?

Annie Williams, business development manager and ruminant nutrition specialist at UK Agri-Tech Centre, will be sharing insights into how feed additives can influence emissions from livestock.

Join us at Plumpton College on 30th May to…

Looking forward to this online event tomorrow. Trying to unpick some of the thorny issues around land use and diet in the UK. Do come along and ask me some challenging questions! Organic Research Centre Agricology

Farmers/landowners in🦎 Cornwall

Want to find out more about planting trees but not sure where to start?

Join our 1st #AgroforestryNetwork meeting with farmer David Oates
Tues 14 May, 12-4pm
Rosuick Organic Farm, TR12 6DZ

Farm Carbon Toolkit #FarmNetZero
soilassociation.co/4dnVfKv

Are you considering how #AnaerobicDigestion might be integrated into your farm business?

Come to this #FarmOfTheFuture event to visit @WykeFarms for a tour of the AD facility on site and to hear about its development and how it supports farm business resilience.

Register via…

In the first of our series of 3 blogs, we discuss the need to better understand the financial and climate impacts of #RegenerativeFarming practices (links to our new joint report with Students Organising for Sustainability🌍)👇
farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/2024/05/02/the…
#RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateChange Liz Bowles

This month:
💪 Astonishing support for our Big Give campaign £106,402 raised
🗣 Spread the benefits of pasture-fed systems
🌾 Strengthening food security
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📌 Monthly round-up mailchi.mp/pastureforlife…
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“Insects managed correctly in agriculture transform quickly from being a pest to being a powerful tool.” Andy Dibben The Organic FarmShop agricology.co.uk/resource/its-n…

If you're at Farmers Weekly #TransitionLIVE today, don't miss our CEO Liz Bowles and panel at 3.30pm on 'How to improve & reward sustainable agriculture'. It's a fab lineup.
Have a great event--and don't forget the sun cream...😉
#Soil #Soil Health Jo Franklin

Farmers/landowners in🦎 Cornwall

Want to find out more about planting trees but not sure where to start?

Join our 1st #AgroforestryNetwork meeting with farmer David Oates
Tues 14 May, 12-4pm
Rosuick Organic Farm, TR12 6DZ

Farm Carbon Toolkit #FarmNetZero
soilassociation.co/4dnVfKv

#NationalHedgerowWeek

It is such a privilege to be a small part of the Just Farmers project, giving farmers an insight into what is involved in producing a podcast. We ask all the farmers to produce their own show within 2 hours and we are always so impressed with their creativity!

Are you a climate-friendly farmer? Are you willing to share your experiences? The Carbon Farmer of the Year competition is about celebrating those agricultural businesses that are working hard to manage #GHGemissions & #CarbonStorage .
Find out more👇 farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/carbon-farmer-…

Are you considering the use of #AnaerobicDigestion technology to support slurry and manure management on your farm?

Come to the #FarmOfTheFuture : Looking at farm scale AD demonstration day for a tour of the AD facility at @WykeFarms, which will be led by Tom Clothier.

Tickets…

Case study Woodland Trust🌳 Devon farmer Martyn Bragg’s experience of incorporating alley cropping #agroforestry into his 170ha mixed organic mixed farm. Trees have provided shelter, increasing vegetable yields and providing additional commercial crops. agricology.co.uk/resource/fruit…

🌱 This week it’s both #PlantHealthWeek and #NationalHedgerowWeek .

🌳 Healthy #trees are vital in our efforts to increase tree cover for people, wildlife and the climate.

👉 Learn how we're keeping trees and #hedgerows healthy and how you can help: bit.ly/3y61ySG

🌾🪱🐄🪲🌿Two thirds of both UK and global farmland is pasture. Pasture, and effectively managing the animals who graze upon it, is the first step towards revitalising the biodiversity in and on much of our farms and landscapes...1/3

Sometimes it comes as a mix across the field or in alternating rows – intercrops!

Watch Tom Sizmur (Tom Sizmur) from #TeamLEGUMINOSE introduce himself and the project.

🔊 Innovative Farmers are welcoming new applications!

If you’ve got an idea to make your farm more profitable & sustainable, take part in a #fieldlab where you’ll receive research support & funding to test it out.

First round closes 31 July - apply here: innovativefarmers.org/get-involved/s…